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Dear all,

Thank you all for visiting, reading and sharing the news with me on the Fukushima Appeal Blog. I’ve kept it running since February 2012. Unfortunately, I will need some break now to attend to some of my health issues.

I would like to thank this blog and its supporters for giving me an opportunity to become a part of the slowly awakening global community during this very important time of global change. I had zero knowledge of nuclear before the Fukushima disaster, and was and still am a just normal citizen. It’s been hard to see Japan becoming a criminal, immoral and authoritarian country since the Fukushima Disaster. So it’s been a huge awakening and healing process to have a platform to speak out instead of feeling powerless, angry and sad about it. With the new secret law that is going to be introduced in Japan soon, Japanese people will need more help than at any other time in its history from foreign bloggers, doctors and scientists. Please remember Fukushima. I hope that the more difficulties we may encounter, the stronger and connected we will become to fight against injustice and be able to act from our heart space. (Mia)

Soon
after the Fukushima disaster, Prof Yamashita of Nagasaki University, who denies
the dangers of internal exposure to radiation, was appointed as an advisor in
Fukushima. He has been influential over
the new regulations in Japan to dismiss the health concerns of Fukushima
disaster victims, carrying out various misleading safety campaigns throughout
the country using huge amounts of tax money with the support of nuclear power groups and the government.

So we
are so glad to hear the news about this new group. This is a very significant move from Japan towards achieving greatertransparency about the dangers of internal exposure to
radiation and reeducating the public and nuclear power groupsin Japan and around the world.

Historically,
many studies of the dangers of internal exposure to radiation have been
prohibited or concealed from the public by international nuclear power groups,
starting with US Army after the bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. One of the leading members of the new
Association is Dr. Hida, who is 94 years old and is from Hiroshima. He has seen over 6000 radiation victims
during the course of his career and explains the history in various Youtube
videos as follows:

"During the seven years for which Japan was
occupied by the American army after World War II, American military personnel
warned victims not to talk about their experiences to each other or write about
them so they could keep the effects of the bombs secret. Even doctors who had seen the victims were
not allowed to keep any records of them or publish any radiation studies, under
threat of severe punishment."

"The Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC)
was set up by the Americans to investigate the effects of the bombs in order to
create even more effective bombs. They
checked victims’ radiation levels periodically, but never gave them any
treatment." This sounds similar to what’s happening to citizens in Fukushima right now. Dr.
Hida also mentioned: " the American army came to Hiroshima and Nagasaki to
measure radiation there after the passage of a typhoon and announced that all
the radiation had been washed away by the rain, so it was safe to live
there. At that time, no one knew about
the dangers of radiation, so they believed what they were told."

Dr.
Hida later found out that it was not safe, because he witnessed so many people
who had arrived in the city after the bombings dying with the same symptoms as
those who had been there during the bombings.
He estimates that one third of the victims of Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombs had beenexposed to internal radiation. Meanwhile, the Japanese government is still using
this statement by the American military to make it difficult for Hiroshima/Nagasaki
victims to obtain compensation.Also it’s sad
to say that as a result of what happened in Hiroshima/Nagasaki, the issue
of internal exposure to radiation has been ignored and the victims in
Fukushima are now suffering the consequences .

Dr.
Hida hopes, and believes it possible, that if all the doctors, scientists and
concerned citizens aware of the dangers of internal exposure to radiation get
together and work towards a shift in international public opinion, then others
who are now keeping quiet will join in this new awareness towards it.

Another
leading member of the Association, Prof. Yagazaki of Okinawa University,
criticized other associations such as Radiation Effects Research Foundation and National Institute of Radiological Sciences, saying that they had been set up to
further the aims of supporters of nuclear power and nuclear weapons, and had
not conducted any real science as they had ignored the issue of internal
radiation. He emphasized that the most
important purpose of the new Association is to safeguard people’s lives.

New
reports of the dangers of internal exposure to radiation to follow.

Saturday, 26 May 2012

Tepco
says getting spent fuel rods out of the pool at Reactor 4 would take at least 4
years to finish. They say they need to
clear the pool, build a new one around the broken old one to be able to hold
new crane, and so on. They haven’t even
started any of them yet. It’s taking for
long time when there is possibility of another big earthquake could happen
soon.

Prof. Arnie Gundersen says: it’s
soluble within 3 years using dry cast storage pulled by air. He thinks the money issue gets in the way,
but also says that if the nuclear regulatory commission says “Do it.”, then it
will happen.”

Japanese
nuclear reactor specialist, assistant professor of Kyoto University research
reactor Institute, Mr. Hiroaki Koide
has been warning the danger of the reactor 4 since the disaster occurred. He commented at the NYC Press Conference May
4th 2012: The amount of Cesium137 released from Fukushima disaster
is 170 times more than Hiroshima bomb. Over
5000 times more than Hiroshima bomb in the spent fuel pool at reactor 4.

On
5/25/2012, in the daily press conference of Tepco, WSJ asked Tepco how they are
going to settle it down in case of when SFP4 turns over or leaks. Tepco evaded
the question to show they can’t deal with the worst senario.

Despite growing international
concerns over the state of spent fuel rods at the crippled Fukushima No. 1
nuclear power plant, two government experts said on May 21 that there are no
plans to speed up their scheduled removal by 2015.Speaking at a news conference at
the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo, the government apparently
wanted to get the message out to the world that the No. 4 reactor at the plant,
which houses more than 1,500 nuclear fuel rods, could withstand a similar
strike to last year's Great East Japan Earthquake……….

Wednesday, 23 May 2012

After the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that
struck Japan on March 11, 2011, tons of debris was swept into the Pacific. Much
of it is buoyant enough to float on the surface and can be moved around by
small scale currents and large scale circulation patterns, such as the North
Pacific Gyre..........

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/japan-farmer-harvests-hope-in-our-soil/story-e6frg6nf-1226363955828JAPANESE farmer Takemi Shirado still sounds
grief-stricken and shell-shocked when talking about last year's Fukushima
nuclear disaster that so devastated his rural community. Catastrophic radiation
contamination of the soil means his family won't be able to sow rice on their
Iwaki rice paddies, about 60km from the crippled defunct power plant, for at
least 300 years.Other local farmers are starting
to grow leafy vegetables on less-contaminated fields, but are finding consumers
too scared to buy their risky produce.But Mr Shirado is clearly not a
man to moan and mope.Instead he has come to Australia
as head of a consortium of Fukushima farmers to see if north Queensland's fertile
Burdekin valley might hold the solution to his prefecture's long-term
fallout-affected food problems……….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItPra2Y0M7Q&feature=related*Japanese
government is playing their cultural problems to manipulate its people. (15m13s
-)*Fukushima
disaster is worse than Chernobyl disaster. (20m30s-)*It’s
possible to solve the problem at Reactor 4 within 3 years (28m40s-)*Japanese Prime Minister Noda mentioned
“Whatever you do, do not affect Tepco.” 3 weeks after the Fukushima accident
when he was the finance minister then. (34m40s-) (16m30s
-) They’ve been told by the Japanese government that it’s safe to eat. So
planting food on the contaminated soil, they are eating the radioactive
food. And they are doing so knowingly it’s radioactive, but can’t go
against other family members because of its powerful parental family structure
in Japan. He also praised those women in Japan especially the ones with
young children are saying “No” to this. (34m-) The nuclear industry is deeply infused into the government. In
Japan when people working for the regulator go to work to high level well paying
job at the utility – Japanese call it Ama-Kudari which means [sent into heaven]
–the coyness. With IAEA who I’ve seen the paper said that they are the
watchdog. But in fact there is an article also says that their goal is to
promote nuclear power. So the industry and the government essentially won
the matter wherever you go. The present prime minister of Japan Noda was
the finance minister during the accident. One of the emails that surfaced
about a month ago in which (it was from 3 weeks after the accident) he said
that “Whatever you do, do not affect Tepco.” So the government has been
more interested in protecting Tepco….but they haven’t been protecting its
people.

The United States deliberately allowed Japan access to the United
States’ most secret nuclear weapons facilities while it transferred tens
of billions of dollars worth of American tax paid research that has
allowed Japan to amass 70 tons of weapons grade plutonium since the
1980s, a National Security News Service investigation reveals........

As the nuclear crisis in Japan continued to
worsens, over 2 million citizens including 300,000 children in Fukushima and
beyond have now officially become a morbid experiment to radiation exposure.This experiment will be ongoing for decades
and the research is led by sociopath and government appointee, Dr. Shunichi
Yamashita.While the authorities keep on
downplaying the danger to lure citizens to remain in Fukushima, children are
being used as a bait to keep their parents from escaping and unknowingly servings
the government’s propaganda.To reopen
the schools legally in Fukushima prefecture, the government set the levels of
exposure around the school playground 3.8uSv/h.

Thousands of families, distrusting of the
government, evacuated their children far from Fukushima.But too many stayed behind.This is their story…….

PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION AND FORWARD TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW. It will take
a second ... a second the children of Fukushima do not have !http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/evacuate_fukushima/
3000 signed the petition + over 4000 signed by hands as of December 18th 2011.
This petition will be used on several occasions and will be submitted to the
highest authorities. Please share it with everyone you know.

Evacuation

In Fukushima there was 2 million population including 360,000 children.

The Japanese government evacuated about 100,000 (87,000 out of 20km radios of the plant), and most of them are still in Fukushima prefecture. 65% of Fukushima prefecture became the radiation control area (a level of the contamination is more than 37,000Bq/m2), so therefore most of them are still in radioactively contaminated area unless they evacuated out of Fukushima prefecture into safe area voluntarily without any financial help from the government. Voluntary evacuees within Fukushima prefecture is 23,551, voluntary evacuees out of Fukushima prefecture is 27,776 as of 22/9/11. Even Fukushima-city which is 50km away from the plant is no longer safe, especially for children. The government statistics shows that only about 36,000(including about 20,000children, ) left Fukushima prefecture. And most of them left Fukushima Prefecture voluntarily without any financial support from the government.(October 2012)

Food Safaty

Amount of allowable ionizing radiation in foodincluding rice in Japan is now 100BQ/kg for cesium.

So this could mean that contaminated food which they can’t sell in Japan could be exported to the countries that have more relaxed regulations, such as EU countries and Thai (500) and Singapore, Hong Kong, Philippine, Vietnam, Malaysia (1000) and USA (1200).

*A Woman Who Refuses to Give In to A New Nuke PlantPlease send her a postcard: Atsuko Ogasawara, owner of “Asako House”, built in the center of the planned Ohma Nuclear Power Plant premises. She would appreciate it if you could send a post card (just with a few words is ok). Receiving a mail as much as possible helps her position to keep up anti nuclear campaign. Here is “Asako House”’s address: Ms. Atsuko Ogasawara, c/o Asako House, 396 Aza Ko-okoppe, Oh-aza Ohma, Ohma Machi, Shimokita Gun, Aomori

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Fukushima disaster is not over. It seems getting worse. Continuous leaking of ionizing radiation into the atmosphere (10million Bq/hour or more) and into the sea.. There seems no end and no solution to stop it. There is no good result in decontamination work. 27 children developed thyroid cancer. More reports of deformed babies. More people of dying of leukemia and sudden death.… Yet the Japanese Government wants all evacuees to go back to their home land by 2020. Even trying to sell nuclear to other countries, claiming it’s going to be safe. I hope information from this blog to give you views from the victim’s side of stories, health issues and related information on nuclear disaster, especially about Fukushima disaster. We should remember and learn lessons from ongoing tragedy happening in Chernobyl and Fukushima.

100% nuclear free: Japan shut down its last reactor on 15/9/13 – There has been no shortage of electricity since 3.11

*IAEA ＆ WHO downplays the danger of radiation. (Refer to the comment on Feb.2012)

Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant up date news

(October 10, 2012)

The Fukushima disaster is far from over, with 10million BQ every hour of ionizing radiation (80% is coming out of reactor 2) leaking continuously into the air (as of October, 2012). No human can get near to the reactors. Even robot can only stay a couple of hours. Reactor 4 is still the most worrying, with 1535 spent fuel rods in the pool. A further6, 375 spent fuel rods are stored in a shared pool only 50 meters away from the Reactor 4. After the disaster, the maximum allowable dose of ionized radiation was raised to 250mSv/yfrom 100 mSv/y for Tepco workers (3000 workers every day) until the situation is restored to normal. Because of the dangerously high level of ionized radiation at the site, they can only work for a limited time, which makes progress slow, and more and more workers have been exposed to the maximum radiation, which means that it could be difficult to find enough people to work there continuously during the next at least 40 years work of decommissioning.

Nobody knows how and when we will be able to say that the Fukushima disaster is over.